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development by Fleischer brothers

Max and Dave Fleischer had become successful New York animators while Disney was still living in Kansas City, Missouri. The Fleischers invented the
rotoscoping process, still in use today, in which a strip of live-action footage can be traced and redrawn as a cartoon. The Fleischers exploited this technique in their pioneering series
Out of the Inkwell (1919–29). It was this...

The Fleischer brothers were sons of an Austrian tailor who took his family to America in 1887. They completed their first cartoon film in 1915. The mechanically inclined Max invented the rotoscope, a time- and labour-saving device in which live-action film frames are traced as a guide for animated action. Brother Dave’s on-camera performance in a clown suit was rotoscoped into the character...

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